Warriors laugh off trash talk from boastful NBA retirees

OKLAHOMA CITY — From Oscar Robertson to Isiah Thomas to Stephen Jackson, retired players have come from all angles in the past week to claim that their teams would have stopped the seemingly unstoppable 2015-16 Warriors.

The Warriors are now responding, starting with a hilarious Twitter stream Friday and continuing at the team’s morning shootaround Saturday.

Just before the team’s flight from Orlando to Oklahoma City on Friday, center Andrew Bogut posted on Twitter: “My under-14 team in Melbourne, Australia would have beat these Warriors 109-99. Fat Jimmy would have locked down Stephen Curry!!!!”

No Warriors trash talk is complete without something from power forward Draymond Green, who tweeted: “Tell Big Jimmy, ‘You and I have illegal screens for days to allow Steph to get his shot off!’”

After a “no comment” on the actual existence of “Fat Jimmy,” Bogut presented a thoughtful response to the recent criticism of the Warriors.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is “amused” by all the trash talk from players from other eras.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is “amused” by all the trash talk from players from other eras.

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Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is “amused” by all the trash talk from players from other eras.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is “amused” by all the trash talk from players from other eras.

Photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack, Associated Press

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“They obviously want to get in the media and have their name heard again,” Bogut said after Saturday’s shootaround. “I just hope I’m not a bitter old man in my 50s and 60s. Every generation says the next generation is softer and slower and not as smart and not as physical. I hope I’m not one of those guys that does that. It’s unfortunate. I respect all eras. Every era brought something different, as will the new era in 10 or 15 years when I’m on my couch with a beer open and watching. I respect everybody, because I know what it takes to get to this league — whatever era you played in.”

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was asked if it was a compliment to be compared with some of the league’s all-time great teams.

“It would be a compliment, if they were saying something nice about us, but it doesn’t appear to be a compliment,” Kerr said. “I’m amused by the whole thing. It doesn’t bother me. I think it’s amusing. Every era is so different. The rules are different. The styles are different. The play is different.…

“When you try to compare all of this stuff, it’s pretty much impossible, so all of this stuff is meaningless and sort of amusing.”

“I had so much fun,” Thompson said. “I remember going there when I was 9 years old, and I feel like I had just as much fun now that I’m 26. It was a great time.

“Hopefully, we’ll make that an annual thing in Orlando, because it was great to get away from the game and have some good fun.”

Thompson said he’s been a Harry Potter fan since the fourth grade. He and Barbosa tried to talk Bogut into joining the adventure.

“I would have bet my house that Klay would have been one of them,” Bogut said of the trio who made the trip. “I put my seat belt on when there’s turbulence, so I’m not one of those guys that’s going to go on a roller coaster. Not my kind of thing.”